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- Title
The problem of Judeo-French: between language and cultural dynamics.
- Authors
Kiwitt, Marc
- Abstract
The article discusses the problem of the linguistic status of the varieties of Old French used within the Jewish communities of medieval northern France. On the basis of evidence drawn from graphemics, phonology, inflectional morphology and the lexicon, several distinct linguistic registers, corresponding to the various discursive traditions reflected in the Jewish vernacular texts, are identified. These registers are characterized essentially by a number of lexical features, including phenomena pertaining to inherited Romance vocabulary, loan words, morphological calques and phono-semantic matching. While the existence of an autonomous Judeo-French language or dialect is not corroborated, the Jewish vernacular sources are interpreted as the expression of a distinctly Jewish linguistic repertoire shaped by the cultural dynamics of Jewish life in the French Middle Ages.
- Subjects
FRANCE; JUDEO-French language; LANGUAGE &; languages; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2014, Vol 2014, Issue 226, p25
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijsl-2013-0074